Long Island Arboretums Majestic Trees

100 Year Old Beech Tree (Planting Fields Arboretum)Trees certainly tell a story of time and on my journeys through various Long Island Arboretums I have come across some spectacular works of nature worth noting.  These trees range in ages up to 150 years, are virtually irreplaceable, and their beauty and stature are unsurpassed.    Enjoy the journey. 150 Year Old Beech Tree (Old Westbury Gardens)Weeping Purple Beech...

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Custom Crossfire Burning System Fire Tree

This custom crossfire burner was created to sit inside a 400 pound Oak Steel Log set for Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. It is designed to pump 372K BTU of Natural Gas. What you see here in the video is only 250K BTU. We cant wait to install it and see how she REALLY burns! For all your custom outdoor burning system needs, please visit us online or call today. 1-877-566-52...

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Landscape Garden Design – The Difference between a Good Garden and a Great One

A Garden can be a thing of beauty: provided a little care and attention goes into its creation. Thats where Landscape Garden Designs come into play – the difference between creating a Garden in a considered fashion and just letting things grow. With a little forward thought and planning, any outside space can become a glorious addition to house or home.The difference between a planned Garden, or a properly planned Garden, and a non planned Garden,...

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RILL

A rill is a narrow and shallow incision into soil resulting from erosion by overland flow that has been focused into a thin thread by soil surface roughness. A rill may also refer to narrow channels of water inset in the pavement of a garden, as a water feature. The precedents come from Persian Gardens and Moorish Spanish Gardens. One of the most historically significant is found at the Alhambra in Granada Spain.  At the Court of the Lions...

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Custom Fire Tree Burner

We recently were commissioned by Winter Park Ski Resorts to re-weld their aging steel log display and build them a burner that would make any fire lover proud. So we did and we built them this custom crossfire burner "fire tree." Watch and bask in the glory of all its majesty. Wait until you see the next one we build for them, its twice as big! If you are in the market for a custom fire pit or outdoor burning system, please visit us online or contact us today. 1-877-556-5...

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VERTICAL GARDEN

READING ROOMSProject: An above-grade, on-structure courtyard for library building designed by world renowned architect Robert A. M Stern.  Courtyard is to be a roof garden space above the mezzanine level, surrounded on three sides by structure yet open with a view on the southern exposure side. Building drawings were supplied; program was developed based upon the Jacksonville Library’s existing and anticipated future needs.Creation: The design...

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Landscape Design Landscape Design Ideas

Landscape Design,Landscape Design Id...

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Here are some photos of the show gardens from my visit to the Chelsea Flower Show

This is pure elegance...The Daily Telegraph Garden designed by Anabella Lennox-Boyd.  Her inspiration for this garden is the purity of design found in a Japanese garden, which is combined with an English planting tradition to create a harmonious, visually stimulating space.  Hope one day I can be half this good!"I Dream, I Seek Garden" designed by Shao Fan. COmminsioned by theK T Wong Charitable Trust to "build bridges" between China and...

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Beautiful Home Garden

Beautiful home gar...

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Warming Trends Webisode 8 Custom Welded Oak Steel Log Kit

In this weeks webisode, we construct and weld a custom Oak Steel Log Kit for outdoor fire pits. From start to finish, we show you how common plain steel pipes transform into artistic, durable and contemporary log kit grates for outdoor use. Perfect for commercial properties, these log kits will not only protect your burning system and disperse heat, but they are aesthetically appealing and will last the lifetime of your fire pit. These log kits are great for bar and restaurant establishments, ski and golf resorts, hotels and other commercial properties....

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Leyland Cypress

Cupressocyparis leylandii ( Leyland Cypress )A hybrid of the Monterrey and the Nootka Cypresses from the West Coast; the Leyland cypress is now one of the most popular evergreen screen trees in the Mid Atlantic U.S. What most people dont know is that it can easily exceed 100 feet when mature and some trees on good sites may even reach the massive dimensions of its parents and attain sizes of 200 x 70 x 11 feet after a few centuries. Growing up to...

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